Reviews (page 6 of 14)
This was decent but won't be revisited.
More hits than misses, and more than I expected
another classic, even though of course it sounds a bit dated today
Kult
This is pure 70s rock. Great songs, awesome guitar solos. Glad for this recommendation!
Very talented guys doing really impressive things with their instruments. One extra star for the sweet wildcat noise.
Bra greier, vet ikke hvorfor jeg ikke har sjekka ut Deep Purple før.
Hell yeah, bra start på fredagen. Digger det her. Child in Time er 5/5 (selv om den er enda fetere live på Made in Japan platen). Noen av de andre låtene er litt svakere, men det er nesten så jeg slenger meg på 5 på hele skiven her. Tror det er fredagstemningen som tar meg så roer meg ned til en 4/5
God hard rock. 3 men høres nok ikke igjen så mange ganger .
Rockin’ my smockin’ good time
I definitely prefer this to early deep purple! Good funk mixed in. 3.5/5 - 4/5
Deep Purple has so much talent. Ian Gillan’s voice is unparalleled in the rock pantheon. But their talents did not include songwriting or restraint. Even their occasional really great songs (Sweet Child in Time, for instance) are unnecessarily bloated. There’s no need to have 3 crescendos in one song, much less four!!?! I love some of what they have to offer, in limited doses. But as an album, this is a 2.
It's hard to beat the combo of Ian Gillan and Ritchie Blackmore. Amazing energy, brilliant riffs, a great listen all round.
Rock on 🤘
Even in the greatest era of Rock there are some bands that leave me a little cold, Deep Purple being one of them. In an age of Moog Music and Psychedelia they go a little bit too heavy in both for my tastes. Still solid and very good compared to other offerings on this list.
Favorite Track: Bloodsucker
woo classic rock guitar solos not quite frenetic but definitely gets you going
Not my genre, but appreciated the blend of rock and slower percussion/psychedelic interludes. Definitely feels very 70s.
Pretty good
Good ol classic rock feat some noodly guitars
This rocked. Flight of the Rat is quintessential rock, and the entire album was deeply enjoyable. Absolutely will listen again, probably soon.
Molt de solo de guitarra, m'agrada que es disc obri amb un molt top. Pero no m'ha matat, en general molt guitarra
Gar nicht meins...
A staple of my youth.
One of the great early hard rock albums.
Probably not
That rocked way harder than I expected, the first song had a little bit of a slow start but then the rest of the album rocked out. This album must have melted many pre-marital head faces when it was released.
ok this is a fun album
Rock but not roll
Fantastic album with so much great talent from every instrument.
Deep Purple is a band that I've always wanted to get into, but I just haven't been exposed to their stuff enough to add it to a playlist. Parts of the album reminded me of Ozzy Osbourne's music, others were much more mellow while still being upbeat metal. Solid album, I'll come back to a few songs. I like an album with strong vocals, and this was a little too heavy on just instrumentals with some incoherent screams, but it was fun.
I have heard of Deep Purple, but I've never been a fan. Not until today that is, because wow this album had me intrigued from beginning to end. My one issue is that sometimes the guitar solos are so long that you forget what song you're listening to and then the chorus comes back and sounds out of place. That may lessen as I listen to these songs more and more and trust me I definitely will. All the instruments come together perfectly and I like the vocals. It's not very long either, so it didn't get boring or repetitive.
This is more like it, what I expected when doing this list. Most entities I give 3 stars as "technically good but not for me", but this is a "I like it even though most of the songs are kinda mid" 3 star. There's just an energy to this album from the start with Speed King.
What a nice entry with some punch. Good, heavy leaning rock that is mostly straight-forward and doesn't spend too much time getting off track. Great rhythm with heavy riffs. And at just 42 minutes long, it's a nice excursion.
Solid
Wish I could hear this live, I bet it kills.
Apart from Child in Time I can't rate this album
Great
Heavy rock
Mid for me
I like Deep Purple but wasnt vibing with this too much, its 3
I've never listened to it before but I'm not really surprised I enjoyed it, it's definitely right up my alley. Drumming is phenomenal and the guitar work is really good too. Perhaps it meanders a bit too long however.
yep that’s definitely an early 70s rock album 👍🏼 I was only half listening but is was okay, some nice moments but none of the songs stood out to me on first listen. 5/10
мой первый целиком прослушанный альбом deep purple. в первой половине не было ни одной песни, которая удерживала бы внимание и наслаждение на всей своей протяженности и произвела бы впечатление. child in time красивая. вторая половина больше порадовала. into the fire, living reck - хорошо гитарные соло впечатления не произвели..
Probably like a 3.5. cool stuff but not my favorite
Wild, wild desert foxes in an intergalactic firework.
laut und toll
Ned so mis… Zwenig usenandgsetzt mit Hardrock dasi chan beurteile obs innovativ/guet ish. Blues Influence und s ✨Drama✨ find ich defür sehr spannend und überraschend. Ish vorallem no krass wenn denn nachene Autoplay en andere Track spielt (Fireball) und afach merksh das de so viel meh swagger het. All in all intressanti time capsule aber jez ned eppis woni wieder wird lose
This album is just pure kick ass! I didn’t think that I knew this album coming into it as most of us ‘90s classic rock radio junkies learned about Deep Purple through the Machine Head album. However, upon listening to it, I know I’ve heard a lot of these songs before, especially the song Child in Time. I don’t know how I can talk a lot about this album so because it’s just pure rock and the foundations of metal playing out. Honestly, I thought the whole album was great. In addition to Child in Time I got to say the Flight of the Rat was another favorite song. I dug all the drum breaks and Caribbean/disco influence, which shouldn’t work but add so much flavor. I think if I trip across this one again on vinyl, it’s coming home.
Random thoughts: * Isn't one Deep Purple album enough for 1001? I don't really think this called for two Deep Purple albums. * Speed King and Into the Fire were my favorite tracks. * They do rock and sound like stereotypical 70s rock. Which is a good thing! * Rock on forever!
Lots of noodling and jamming and Ian Gillan wailing. This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It certainly rocks but doesn't feel like a cohesive album.
Deep Purple's 'In Rock' came out in 1970 by all accounts a very heavy year. Black Sabbath (who released their S/T album AND Paranoid!), Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin & Bloodrock all landing or taking off in 1970 sometimes simultaneously - heavy metal was here. All the above-mentioned bands (plus others not mentioned) would get louder and louder as the 1970s went on but 1970 was the birth of heavy metal and Deep Purple was one of the originators of this new genre that barely had a name- In Rock is proof of their importance to Heavy Metal and much more importantly to my ears - it rocked and it rolled over everything and everyone not holding on tight. One of the greatest bands of all time in any genre.
psychadelic hard rock is just not my bag. Also wayyy too much distortion and muddy sounds here, I checked the write-up and supposedly its intended to emulate a live performance, in which case, why? It burdens the whole listening experience, dont get me wrong, great instrumentals at times, but man do they just wander aimlessly a lot.
Found this album boooooooring
Great rock album! Pioneers of Heavy Metal and hard rock. For me this is a 8.8 out of 10
Not my bag, but certainly not bad. Loved the drum solo on “Flight of the Rat”. Got queasy on the last track from the left and right panning of sound.
Man I've sooo outgrown these guys
Entre Led Zeppelin et Iron Maiden (Child in Time gros banger avec des airs de Phantom of the Opera), franchement un groupe de heavy métal qui a de la personnalité et de la variation dans les mélodies, pas le genre de metal que j'écoute le plus mais ça reste un bon groupe facile à écouter sans trop se lasser je pense
J’étais persuadée que c’était chiant Deep Purple, probablement à cause de « smoke on the water »… et en fait, cet album est vraiment cool ! Je n’avais pas conscientisée que Child in Time était d’eux, je l’avais déjà entendu dans des films !
Je m'attendais pas à apprécier et puis finalement quelques pistes ont fait relever la note. J'ai bien aimé la petite référence à Take Five à un moment donné. 3/5
liked child in time but I didn't really enjoy listening to any of the other songs
7/10
Pretty solid rocking, I'm not sure how many early 70s heavy rockers everyone needs to hear before they die but maybe this one can stay on the list. There were no real stand out tracks for me personally.
I don’t know any of these songs. Let’s go!!🤘 Ok, this album is just great. Even the “slow song” for track three is powerful. Loving this journey.
Pretty solid. I'd never listened to anything besides the obvious. Didn't disappoint.
Great individual performances and vibe. Less focused in the songwriting than Machine Head
Child in Time is a pretty solid jam. These guys are fine. Machine Head slightly better overall.
Like…. It’s okay. There’s some fun riffs. Great great great opener that then just sort of keeps going a bit too long. And at one point there’s a drum solo that just did absolutely nothing. The Joe jonas of drum solos. Why did everyone have to do a drum solo at one point what was that all about? 2.5/5.0 No best song they were all pretty much the same.
It was fine, deep purple make fine music, there isn’t a lot to shout about in this but it’s not awful. Child in Time is fun though
Deep Purple In Rock is one of those records you KNOW is great. You just don't always know how to quantify it. It does have overly long, indulgent songs (side one is three songs...) but it's also concise, in-your-face and exciting. Blackmore told the others "if it's not dramatic or exciting, it has no place on this album". Mission accomplished.
riiffs
Pure quality
It’s solid, but I’ll just never be a huge fan of their sound.
Loved it. Roots of metal
Some sick guitar leads and harmonies. Deep Purple has sadly been categorized as a meme-y band because of Smoke on the Water and shadowed by Led Zeppelin. But damn, that organ could’ve been mixed a little lower.
Good rock/metal
Kjapp instrumentjokking.
Deep Purple are one of those bands I almost feel like I shouldn't like just because they are often grouped together with other bands of their era that I definitely don't like, but every time I listen to an album of theirs like this, I just can't help but love it. The musicianship is genuinely so good, and considering the standards of the time, the ideas and techniques they use are really impressive.
Dissapointed to get another rock album, but the instrumentation was really good so I enjoyed it enough.
An ugly pokemon middle evolution. It'd be a two if the organ solos didn't fuck so God damn hard.
Honestly not as bad as I was expecting it to be. That 10 minute song was a genuine banger.
I like deep purple. I like this
meh
Considering DP came along in an interesting time music-wise, you gotta respect that they found a niche to stick to, and it's a cool one. A good blend between hard rock and experimental stuff that dips its toes into metal territory, with some 'The Doors' styling. Perfect for riding.
Child in time is an ultra banger, other than that it's not stuff I'm into
Half of it was awesome, other half was solid, really good for 1970, fun listen
Holy shit. I didn’t know Deep Purple rocked like that. I went into this album expecting an inane prog rock wank fest, but this was badass. 5/5 Highlights: Speed King Bloodsucker Child In Time
Knappast det bästa av Deep Purple. Ganska tråkigt hårdrock. Trea
Deep Purple is one of those bands where the albums tend to be up and down, a classic or two and then several duds. This album is the exception, Speed King and Child in Time are definitely classics but there's no real duds on this album.
4 This frickin rocked dude ! 🤟
I was so sure I would not like this album, not being the biggest rock fan, but I had a great time listening to this!
A little bit to heavy
I was surprised that I liked this album so much! The quirky elements added throughout the album made it such a fun and interesting. Listen. I was pleasantly surprised by the keys added into many of the songs, I’m not sure if it was an organ so forgive me if I’m wrong. The drums were enthralling. This album is the perfect thing to listen to on a heavy weightlifting day at the gym.
Black Breast Chinese Eyes 1001 Albums Generator 127 (09/26/2025) Deep Purple In Rock is the first studio album in the so-called "Mark II" lineup of Deep Purple, which is responsible for most of their most highly acclaimed albums. I have always underestimated Deep Purple's influence on heavy metal, even though I know people would say it exists, because I only knew them for their hits, which are not particularly heavy. However, DPiR is completely changing my tone. This thing is so heavy. Speed King is an amazing display of musicality and shows that you actually can have an organ in heavy music. Flight of the Rat is insane and feels almost punky at times. The back and forth solos between guitars and organ is really impressive, as is the drum solo near the end. Into the Fire isn't my favorite song here, but it is absolutely one of the heaviest. Hard Lovin' Man just kind of sounds like an Iron Maiden song at points with its gallopping guitar and powerful drums. The other side of this album is its very proggy nature on certain songs. The most obvious example of this is Child in Time, which is an epic statement that ebbs and flows wonderfully and is probably my favorite song overall. The aforementioned Flight of the Rat and Hard Lovin' Man both have very progressive structures as well. I think that the second half of Deep Purple in Rock is a little bit weaker, but overall, this is a great album. 4/5 Favs: Speed King Child In Time Flight Of The Rat Least Fav: Living Wreck
Child in Time tipped the balance, initially I was daunted - it's exactly the type of thing I'm dreading in this project (70s hard rock), but there was some good stuff, especially CiT which added much more variation shade and colour.
Machine Head is Deep Purple at its best with classics such as Smoke on the Water and Space Trunkin’, this album not so much. The songs are more aggressive and discordant. They lack in melody and restraint. Not a favorite.
Meh
Speed King - 7/10 Bloodsucker - 9/10 Child in Time - 8/10 Flight of the Rat - 9/10 Into the Fire - 8/10 Living Wreck - 10/10 Hard Lovin' Man - 9/10
This is all fine but it’ss a bit Spinal Tap for me.
I CANT DO ANYMORE CLASSIC ROCK!
Light Doobie, Press Play & Enjoy!! The debate about all your songs sounding the same but still be amazing is a long & sorted one. Like acdc & Motorhead, this is Deep Purple. Face melting psychedelic hard heavy rock. Accept or don't. 3.5
Nice! Great guitar on this one. It did start getting a bit repetitive at parts but swiftly moved on 4 ⭐️
Very good.
A rickety bridge between prog and metal. All of it was good but none of it grabbed me like it should.
Deep Purple is fun--in small doses. This was fine. Great music. Too much screaming first thing in the morning on a Monday. They're over the top and a bit much at times. Every song feels overly long. Still, fun enough to get a 3.5, but rounded down.
The only thing worse than the actual Mount Rushmore is someone photoshopping their face onto a fake Mount Rushmore.
Liked the guitar solos and piano elements "Bloodsucker" really good "Child in Time" enjoyable and rich journey Overall very high-pace, entertaining ride through a solid rock album
Harder rock, metal. Soaring vocals that sometimes are screaming. Foundational to the genre. Great keyboard sounds and percussion throughout. Listened before? N Saved tracks? N Favorite tracks? Child in Time, Into the Fire, ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Liked it. Saved some tracks.
Surprised to like this a lot
Första heavy-albumet ja nånsin lyssna på efter Zeppelin back in the days. Child in time e i min top 5 sånger nånsin. Also top 3 gitarrsolon nånsin.
I know my friend will crucify me for this one, but I just do not get deep purple. Not to say that it is a bad record, but I just don’t really get it. In my heart it‘s a 3/5, but to keep the peace I will give it a 4/5
Generally like Deep Purple, but this was nothing special.
It seems they were trying to decide whether to be prog rock, classic rock or heavy metal. The transitions mid-song might be important in musical history but that didn't make them enjoyable to listen to
Decent old school rock Favourite - Speed King
Pegarse el lote entre melenas sudorosos
aight
Child in time good
alcune hit incredibili e stra storicizzate interrotti da pezzi un po’ troppo rock per me ma comunque un classico intramontabile, ero indeciso se dare 5
Amé Child in Time, ya la conocía pero ahora confirmé su sabor. El resto bien pero nada guau. Nota: 3.4
Great rock album
Speed king - like the fun vibe, but feels quite long a little bit repetitive (3/5) Bloodsucker - fan of the guitar, nothing too special (3,3/5) Child in time - It's 10 mins??, like the lyrics and also the voice, too long for my taste (2,8/5) Flight of the rat - ooooh i like, its so long again??, great meaning and incredible sound, love the parallels to flight of the bumblebee (fav) (4/5) Into the fire - lowk it gives Mario Cart (but in a good way?), catchy (4/5) (2nd fav) Living Wreck - again quite catchy, pretty plain (3/5) Hard Lovin' man - 7 mins again??, the lyrics just arent really my style (2/5)
Pretty sure the only thing I’ve heard by Deep Purple before this was “Smoke on the Water.” I had pretty low expectations from a band that created the easiest song to learn on a guitar. Five seconds into track one I realized I was wrong.
Good but no standouts
Definitely the most surprising album of the list for me so far. This goes hard af
This is probably a result of playing it in the background while I worked instead of sitting with it more intentionally, but it was just alright. Nothing really stood out. Not bad at all, just not "WOW".
Just some classic hard driving rock. Killer riffs, excellent drums, and high energy.
88% Best: Speed King; Bloodsucker; Child in Time; Flight of the Rat Must-Hear? Sure
Hellye
I knew some of their stuff but never did a deep dive on them before. Deep Purple is one of those bands that every band after points to and goes "I was influenced by..." This album is history, you can hear other bands listening to this and trying their version of it. You get a sense of what is to come. Personally I enjoyed the bass on this album. Sure it's fairly simple compared to bands today but damn you can't help but go, "Damn man." Good stuff. I want to listen to it a few times to really grasp what is here.
Not bad, not mind blowing. Needed to hear before I die? Sure, but only once. Some of the 4 and 5 star albums need to be heard much more, and there's a LOT of albums missing on this list that need to be heard more than this one. 2.25 / 5 stars
this is probably a 2, but child of time elevates the whole endeavour
Deep Purple - Deep Purple In Rock 1970 3/1001 ~ Well, this most certainly fucks, but I done been knew. “Child in Time” forever!
70s hard rock. Led-Zep meets Spinal Tap. Fizzy production. Chunky rock guitar riffs. Plus organ. Solo! Some interesting ideas on this album (Child of Time) but still suffers from the excessive bloat of a lot of hard rock from this era.
Nothing special, but perhaps I've heard too much 20th century rock at this point.
The Spinal Tap-esque album cover lets you know what's in store: '70s hard rock that's supremely dopey (again, literally and figuratively) but totally fun. Parts of this album play like a caricature of bloated '70s rock, only this is the BASIS of said caricatures. As much as I appreciate my punk-rock forefathers revolting against this kind of thing, I also appreciate the dumb fun.
This is the worst edition of Guitar Hero yet. I think about how Led Zeppelin and Hendrix and Black Sabbath already existed at this time, but I guess the appetite was for more? Fun fact, Christopher Cross filled in for Ritchie Blackmore at Deep Purple's first US concert in 1970 which I presume was for this album. If this album is on here but Sailing isn't then I would like to speak with the manager.
During the first song I thought it was going to be a classic-rock drag, but I ended up really liking it. It rocked pretty hard. Good rhythm section, and the organ was just out there enough to make things interesting. This was a pleasant surprise.
This is an album from the English band Deep Purple, and as far as I know they were not popular in the USA until ‘Smoke on the Water’ was released. All tracks on this album I would classify as hard rock, none of which I am familiar. Hard rock was novel when this album came out, but now it seems mundane. Good guitar work on some of the tracks.
This album cover is sending me. It's like a LiveJournal icon I would have made in 2003. All I know about Deep Purple is 'Smoke on the Water', which is the only song we learned to play on guitar in middle school music class. To be fair, I liked playing it. But as expected, they are pretty "70s rock"y, with a surprising amount of metal-y vocals. I do like the organ(?) part on 'Speed King'. I also like that they had a super messy history as far as membership, kinda like Destiny's Child. But that's pretty much where the liking ends... Highlight: the lyric "Take the trouble to decide the things you do / will not be things that don't appeal to you" (good advice, bizarre syntax) Lowlight: rhyming "lovin'" and "movin'"? Absurd.
Not for me
I do love deep purple usually, and maybe it was just not what I was feeling on Friday, but it was okay! Just didn't grab my attention like I figured it would. Not bad by any means.
Pretty fun all around. Really enjoyed it will listen again. Love how they just fucking go do it all the time with no let up.
For no actually, good reason, I always thought of Deep purple as a second tier band. They're no Zeppelin or Queen. They're just a middling rock band with a couple of hits. I thought this even though hundred of people and reviews I've read place them squarely at the upper echelons of rock. My bad for not digging in a bit more. This is such a quality album. The music is really good throughout. Ian Gillan has serious pipes and I actually quite like Jon Lord's keyboards. (Have to admit I rarely heap praise on keyboardists. Seems like the least rocking of the available rock instruments.) Richie Blackmore is all over the place, especially wildly at the beginning of Speed King. When I first saw it, I was wondering why they picked this fairly early number with no real hits. But I'm glad it's here. I'll listen to this again.
Not bad but not as good as the other deep purple album. None of the songs really stood out to me on their own.
Yeah, so I'm not the biggest fan of this style of music... But this is one of the best examples of it. And is just so great.
Classic hard rock, all musicians at the peak of their game. For the masterpiece "Child in Time" alone, it deserves the highest score. One of Deep Purple's best albums.
This is what my head sounds like when I don't take my medication. Noisy and discombobulated. 2 stars.
Liked some of the tracks. Couldn’t stand others.
A bit surprised it wasn’t the one with smoke on the water
Really enjoyed this. A proper rock album. High octane and as heavy as fuck for the time. I don’t know why Deep Purple bypassed me for the most part over the years, despite being raised on rock and metal. Love the production on this too - feels raw and live. Particularly Roger Glover’s bass. All involved shine here though. Great album
This is mostly just noise to me. Rough vocals, those high notes are piercing in an uncomfortable way.
hell yeah
2.8/this is not that bad but this is like the 400th 70s & 80s dad rock album in this list. enough is enough
Æ vet æ hørte på det, men æ kan på ingen måte huske om det va interessant i det hele tatt, så æ tror svaret e nei? Sikkert gøy for menn som like sånt, da.
Rambly classic rock
Surprised I had never heard it before. Very impressed.
Lowkey explosive.
wow! Not a fan of Child in Time! Too much wailing at the start. Not a fan of Hard Lovin' Rest of the album was pretty good. Nothing amazing, nothing horrible.
A bit screechy for me, would give it 3.5 if I could
This is a lot heavier than I expected. The riffs are big and the organ sounds cool. This just isn’t my thing, though. Standout Track(s): Into the Fire
My heart sl Deep Purple♡
Classic Rock group... classic rock album... just a little too psychedelic for me.
There's not much I like about this.
Fine, but not my cup of tea. Nice to hear their range of musicianship beyond "Smoke on the Water" 😂 🤙🤙🤙
For me there were no particular standouts on this album. It was just quality rock n roll from start to finish. That said there were moments that it felt like I could have been listening to a Spinal Tap song. Take that however you want.
Brilliant. Kings of Hard Rock. They wipe the floor with anything from Sabbath, or from the USA.
3/5
Their two most popular tracks on this album are also their longest 😆 Old school stoner rock.
coolt albumomslag, lagom lökigt black night var bara en singel som inte var med på skivan. ganska svag utan den kul tokgitarr i början av speed king. bra öppning på skivan
Incredible guitar
Solid rock album
Good Ol classic rock. Okay to come back to sometimes.
nice rock album, but need to relisten cus i feel like i didnt pay too much attention to it when i was listening on the erg
Mostly good; a few ponderous tracks.
2.0
Child In Time
Absolute banger!
I can see why a lot of my favorite bands love Deep Purple. They’re solid.
It was alright. Nothing I am too eager to play again. Nothing I was in a hurry to be over. 3.5
Cooooool 😛
Deep Purple did one thing well, and that was consistently producing quality hard rock jams. This particular album doesn't have the mega-hits that are found in "Machine Head", but it still provides a showcase of instrumental talent, balancing between hard rock and early heavy metal (dat organ tho). In typical 70's rock fashion, some of these tracks drag on a bit and delve into wandering solos. that's not too bothersome if the guitar/drum playing is competent at least.
For the ones who claims knowing Deep Purple and only knows Smoke On The Water. For the ones that Machine Head is the Only masterpiece they released. For the ones who reads "DP," and thinks it's about some Double Penetration. Here's some Purple... In Rock!
This was fine but nothing about it really grabbed my interest.
Don't think I'll listen to it again. It's literally fine.
This is good but you probably have to be in a very specific mood to listen to it on the regular.
Child in time one of the best songs ever written
The best players doing their thang
Hefty and hard. They knew what they and their fans wanted.
1970 was a brilliant year to play an electric guitar.
Sounds a bit generic/samey rock/metal to me, but maybe it wasn't at time. Would be great in a certain context, if feeling a certain vibe, i.e., driving on an open ride at high speeds Favs: Speed King
I tend to forget how much fun Deep Purple is.
Clearly, a important album in the history of hard rock and heavy metal but not really many good songs
I'm only familiar with Machine Head from Deep Purple, which I do happen to own on vinyl. On balance, though, I might prefer this one after just one listen. Despite being released earlier than the aforementioned Machine Head, this album feels more ambitious, experimental, and has a very observable progressive rock thread running throughout. "Child in Time" in particular has blown me away as a sprawling centre-piece of the album, but there isn't a dud to be had either side of it. I would say that I can see this being less immediate for many, despite still containing an abundance of top tier hazy, fuzzy riffage, but it's more closely aligned to my tastes and as such has clicked in a big way from the off. Deep Purple absolutely deserve to be in the conversation alongside Black Sabbath in terms of shaping the genre of heavy metal as we know it today.
Dreadful really.
Nope
No thanks. 1970 was a tough year.
Pure testosterone-fueled rock-n-roll. A little too much powerchords for my taste.
4 - great rock album
Ffffff yeah rock n roll
Otro que hacía mucho que no escuchaba. Gran disco. Me debato entre el cuatro y el cinco. Creo que no es tan bueno como Remain in Light pero me parece mejor que L.A. Woman. Finalmente me decanto por el 4. Está más cerca de ese valor. El disco es impecable, pero tal vez tenga excesos con los solos y en el minutaje de algunas canciones. Esto se ve en la canción más conocida del disco, Child in Time. Es un temazo, no quiero ser mal interpretado, pero dura más de 10 minutos y no estamos hablando de una suite progresiva que amerite esa duración. Le sobran un par de minutos, no jodamos. Obviamente es un merecido clásico, con la secuencia clásica del órgano de Jon Lord y los uuh uhhh de Gillan... que van in crescendo y ahí se levanta la bestia, Blackmore y se pone a patear traseros y es todo espectacular. Y después aparece otra vez Lord y dice "Ritchie, te quiero acompañar con mis teclados re locos". Y después por el minuto 6 todo para y volvemos al principio, y la canción se alarga cuatro minutos más. Las mejores canciones, en mi humildísima opinión, son las más cortas: son concisas y van al punto: haciendo un riff, un estribillo o un solo cuando corresponde, con una brutal precisión. Y es una lástima porque, si bien este disco es un clásico, estas canciones son las que nadie menciona nunca: Bloodsucker, Into the Fire y Living Wreck (esta última siendo mi favorita del disco). Pero bueno, son todas buenas. La que menos me gusta es Speed King. Una lástima porque el mejor usuario del viejo foro de rock.com.ar había elegido esa canción como nick. Pero arranca medio fea y, como pasa con Child in Time, creo que se excede unos minutos. Es un rock and roll salvaje y brutal, me gustaría que dure tres minutos y que se acabe dejándonos la sensación de que fue corta. Mi favorita de las largas es Flight of the Rat. De vuelta, tal vez sería mejor que durara un minuto menos, pero no sabría bien que recortarle. Cada cosa que hace Blackmore en este tema es genial. En síntesis: gran disco. Super importante y el que puso a Deep Purple en la cresta de la ola. Posiblemente sea el mejor disco de la Mark II, si bien es discutible. Creo que solo le faltó un poquito de edición en las canciones más largas para darnos un disco verdaderamente perfecto.
Another nice album structure. 7 tracks, 43 minutes. Done. And a hell of an opening to smack you in the face…. Fierce, fast paced and layered. A nice start. For some reason, not what I thought Deep Purple were about but very glad to be re-educated! Yeh, I can dig this! The organ solos, the stacattos, the soul, the ROCK 🤟🏻 Bit of a step down for ‘Child in Time’ and a few too many wails for me, but redeemed by the tom rolls, guitar solo and picking up of pace half way through and turns out to be a hell of a journey of a track! (Shame about the return of the wails!!) Production and sound are so spot on as well. Perfect distortion and mix. Great drummer. Unexpectedly great album and excited to listen again already. Have I become a deep purple fan?! EPIC and what an end to the album 🥵 (4.5)
The contstant reverb on electric guitar Not my genre.
Man…I remember this album when I was a little boy. My older brothers had this on eight track! I remembered thinking it was pompous (even though I didn’t know what the word meant) when I heard it then. I honestly love the guitar work and solos, but holy shit, the organ ruins every song!
I don’t like Deep Purple all that much, but this was very good.
Goddamn what an amazing album. Definitely gonna revisit this one soon
Great guitar solo in Child in Time. I like Into the Fire. Flight of the Rat is good. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire
If we'll narrow it to "10 Albums You Must Listen Before You Die", this one still gets its spot in the list
Another rock classic. Objectively the song is kinda silly, but this record is worth the price of the guitar solo on Child in Time.
Buen rock. Hay otros que me gustan más de los Deep Purple, pero este me sirvió bastante para un par de caminadas que me eché el fin de semana. Y trae varios solos que prenden porque prenden, así que bien.
Not enjoyable to listen to at all.
Lubię, będę wracać
Today's pick was Deep Purple in Rock, and I honestly have no idea what to expect. I feel like everyone and their mother has heard Smoke On The Water, but I have no idea what to even expect when it comes to this band or the music they make. This album throws you head first into the very loud and instrumental heavy Hard Rock the band was working within even prior to the 70s. I would also argue the music here falls into Progressive Rock though it doesn't all connect as smoothly from track to track, it just has long runtimes throughout the project. I can understand why this is such a big stepping stone as not many people really even knew what Hard Rock, early stages of Metal, and Prog Rock was in 1970 so having a band create such a booming and elaborate album really must have been a big deal, but I just can't seem to really get into this album. I can appreciate the compositions and the ideas behind the album but other than Child in Time, a track I wasn't even super huge on, I really didn't enjoy listening to this album. It came off as more of a chore for myself than anything else. If I wanted to listen to Hard Rock or early Heavy Metal, I'd rather turn on Black Sabbath any day than this Deep Purple project.
Listened before - nothing special
Bad ass, heavy ass rock from top to bottom. No frills, no pretense, just bangers. I've always seen Deep Purple included in discussions of the progenitors of hard rock and metal, but the tunes I was aware of didn't fully illustrate exactly why they belong there. I get it now. Just a slight demerit because the vocal parts (while impressive) don't have the tight form or hookiness I'm personally looking for in my bad ass, heavy ass rock. Whack ass album cover, by the way. They really thought they were cooking with that one.
4 out of 5. This album fucking rocks.
Álbum legendario del hard rock, en general un álbum con pocas canciones pero con canciones de hasta 10 minutos, de los más legendarios de deep purple y él subgénero. Mi favorita flight of the rat, álbum lleno de riffs,solos desde guitarra hasta batería legendarios, teclados legendarios y la voz de Ian Gillan quizás en su mejor momento, del 1 al 10 un 8.7. Considerando cosas cómo él momento de la banda, él momento histórico de música y él momento del subgénero.
Great Album
C'est pas une folie mais ça reste sympa à écouter
Heavy stuff.
Rock and roll baby! This is the definition.
Great guitar solo in Child in Time. I like Into the Fire. Flight of the Rat is good. Listened before? N Saved to library? N Favorite track(s): Flight of the Rat, Into the Fire
I loved the first minute of "Speed King". That's how you start an album. The rest of "Deep Purple in Rock" is fine. Blackmore's guitar skills should be appreciated more. This album could do without the keyboards. 3 stars for "Deep Purple in Rock".
A bit dramatic.
I really like Child in Time but the rest of the songs are just alright. Overall, not a bad album and just overall great Child in Time experience.
J'aurais mis 5 juste pour Child in Time qui est sublime mais j'enlève une étoile pour les synthés.
I can understand how this would have been a big hit at the time, but listening to this and comparing it to the music that came after made it hard to enjoy
Legendary rock album. Should have closed with child in time
I’m liked the organ, music was alright
best album so far had some good rock songs but a lot of the songs were too long
Very nice and clearly an album that has put its mark on history. 'Living Wreck' gives me a lot of "Smoke on the Water" vibes so it's easy to hear where that would come from a few years later. Standouts Flight of the Rat Living Wreck 4/5
Не, я этого не понял, хоть какими бы легендами они ни были.
Just can’t hear the appeal.
"Deep Purple in Rock" is the fourth studio album by English rock band Deep Purple. Hard rock and heavy metal are the Wiki-listed genres. Bingo. It was their first album studio album with the Mark II line-up where vocalist Ian Gillian replaced Rod Evans and bassist Roger Glover replaced Nick Simper. Existing bandmembers included guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, organist Jon Lord and drummer Ian Paice. The band, Blackmore in particular, wanted a heavier album than their previous ones. Mission accomplished. The album received critical praise as a key example of hard rock and heavy metal with one critic crediting it with inventing heavy metal along with Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" and Uriah Heep's "Uriah Heep." The album was also their commercial breakthrough in Europe reaching #4 in the UK (#143 in the US). The album opens with "Speed King," a song attempting to emulate Jimi Hendrix's "Fire." A fast-paced distorted guitar and chaotic drumming succeed in accomplishing that in the introduction. A long organ note leads to the vocals and band kicking in. Wow, this sounds like the MC5 and is not far off from punk. Gillian randomly sings excerpts from Little Richard songs towards the end. "Child in Time" has a jazzy start with organ keys and slow drums. Gillian sings softly but gradually builds to a scream and shows his range. The band's pace picks up too. Blackmore gives a searing guitar solo in this epic 10-minute song. The song was inspired by the cold war and used as an anthem by the anti-communist resistance of Eastern Europe against the Iron Curtain. The second side begins with "Flight of the Rat," a song that evolved during rehearsals from rearranging the opera song "Flight of the Bumblebee." A driving guitar riff with the underlying organ. Another searing Blackmore solo. The album closes with "Hard Lovin' Man." It's a song that was derived from a Glover bass riff and is a blueprint for the classic Deep Purple sound where they would climax with in "Highway Star." Driving guitar, bass and drums. The organ has a 60's psychedelic edge to it. The interplay between the guitar and organ is great with the constant bass and beat. This album has songs that are driving and fast and ones with a slower, heavier pace, almost grungy. Blackmore plays a variety of classic guitar riffs. With the underlying organ, this gives a unique sound. The vocals and vocal range of Gillian complete the picture. You can hear the influence in future heavy metal bands like Iron Maiden. This is a classic album and rightly put into the early key heavy metal album category. A must listen for any hard rock fan.
I have a limited knowledge of Deep Purple, a band that I had always thought as lost in that weird buffer zone between 70s rock and proto heavy metal. I’ve heard their mainstream hits, but never tried to dig deeper. I was absolutely amazed to discover such a modern-sounding album. It’s great from start to finish, incredible vocal energy, fantastic riffs. It’s not a missing link or a transitionnal band, it’s just pure, good rock music. « Child in Time » can easily rival some of Led Zeppelin’s best pieces. A true discovery for me, probably the first real « I’m glad I have listened to this album before I die » moment since I started participating. I’m getting the rest of their discography right now.
Deep Purple rock really hard. I love the prominent organ (in Living Wreck it sounded like some kind of wildcat?). Ritchie Blackmore's guitar hooks and solos are great and so are the operatic vocals. In high school I listened to their live album Nobody's Perfect a million times and still love it. I don't know why but for some reason In Rock doesn't hit like that album does. In Rock definitely sounds like an album that would be good live but it just doesn't have the same bite. Or maybe it just doesn't have all the hits. I'm not sure.
7/10 - I like it, very Led Zeppelinesque, the recording on the alst track can be improved when messing around with Stereo, it's like they got carried away with the new tech and just started messing around with it
5/5 What an album... Non stop fun and non stop high octane rock. I can't even imagine people putting this on the turntable the first time it came out, what their reaction was. From the songs, to the singing, to the guitar, to the keyboards to everything. This is perfection!
Funny that a band named for such a terrible colour band would make such a terrific rock band. No wonder Dad doesn't listen to new music. Fav track: Hard Lovin' Man
My only prior exposure to Deep Purple was the song Smoke on the Water so I didn’t really know what to expect with this. It was pretty great if I’m honest, especially Child in Time that was epic.
Thought this was really good for what can be a slightly monotonous genre of rock albums. Couple of really good songs & the rest quite engaging
Find rock. Nothing too special but Flight of the Rat was good
I like the twang of that guitar 🎸. Deep Purple has the right balance of beats and rhythm that hits well and doesn't repeat in a boring. Paired with solid vocals, this album is entertaining for sure. 8/10
Kinda cool jam band noodling vibes, but ultimately something I wont come back to. Lots of the same it felt like. Deep Purple has done better in my opinion.
Lyssnat en del och det pendlar fram och tillbaka. Som vanligt gillar jag rytmen och soundet men det lyfter inte riktigt helt. Ian sjunger som vanligt grymt, för det mesta. Living wreck är nog bäst. Men det landar trots allt på en trea.
Svårt att inte gilla detta. Bra driv och tempo rakt igenom, feta gitarrer och grym sång, med några höjdpunkter som Child in time och Living wreck. Stabil fyra.
I didn't find that one very good. Left me bored and uninterested but I respected the solos.
Child in time was amazing and the real standout here, the rest was pretty forgettable/generic sounding hard rock to me. Not bad but I will only be revisiting one song on here.
Listened in the truck via YouTube music. Fun rocking album. Lots of long jammy songs.
Solid listening.
Serviceable rock, but not as good as their live album.
A very pleasant jam album. Spotify rolled me into radio at the end of this album and it took me a bit to notice.
7 songs in 42-ish minutes... including a 10 minute song and two more over 7 minutes each. Probably more like 3.5 stars. I doubt I'll listen to the whole album again, but I wouldn't be opposed to it. Overall vibe is great.
I understand why this album would be considered important. Really great guitar work. “Bloodsucker” is the standout track for me. Unfortunately the organ ruins most of the songs whenever it shows up, even though I understand this was a popular sound at the time.
Highlight Song/s: Bloodsucker, Flight of the Rat and Into the Fire 'Speed King' was a bit of a weird song with that amazing intro and that fairly long downtime at the beginning, and with its references to rock 'n' roll seemed quite an odd choice. Then it got significantly better with 'Bloodsucker'; what a crazy good riff that song has. Just all around a good one. 'Child in Time' was extremely underwhelming, I was expecting something a bit more. No clue why they settled with that weird squealing in the song, especially by the end it got really grating. 'Flight of the Rat' has a great instrumental section, that drum section in the last minute or so was really odd, I KIND of like it, kind of not. 'Into the Fire' has the best vocals of any track. it also has the best main riff of any of the songs. Also superb rhythm section. 'Living Wreck' has this weird Mountain Lion sounding part which was really off-putting. It also has great vocals. 'Hard Lovin' Man' starts with this laser-like sound from the keyboardist which is a bit strange. The keyboard solo in this one is pretty cool and sounds quite warpy at times. The last minute of this album (and song) is incredible.
Maybe a little boring, no bangers. Easy to listen to though
Horrible 70s jam rock, didn’t make it past the third song which was 10 minutes by the way. fuck off
Impressive. The record includes much crazy stuff with the vocals, the drums, the guitar, smart use of pauses and more. The band was crearly pushing the limits of then-current music. This can be felt as late as fifty-five years later. Well-deserved five of of five here. Fav song: Child in Time. The first half of the album is heavenly, but the second does not lose grip much.
3⭐️/5 [07.28.2025] 01.12.2026
This was my first experience with Deep Purple, and I wasn't sure what to expect, but I incredibly enjoyed it. Fast, upbeat rock with excellent guitar and drum solos. "Living Wreck" and "Bloodsucker" stood out to me. "Child of Time" was beautiful, as well. Will definitely be diving into some more Purple in the future. Really hard rock is probably the genre I know the least about. I know the trendy names, but its development and history are a mystery to me. I think listening to "In Rock" helped to demystify it a bit, but I hope I get more titles from the genre later on. If not, I'll need to explore it on my own.
I enjoyed this album, i have listened to this album before but still good to come back and re listen
When did the electric organ fall out of favor? Such an underrated rock instrument
Ehh... it's not bad, but this really does nothing for me. Some of the solo sections are cool, but when ever there is singing it is some of the blandest classic rock on this list. Mid 3.
Harder rock than I usually listen to, still grear
Phenomenal rock
Killer organ
Solid hard rock album with progressive twist. Songs pretty much based on hooky bass/guitar riffs and especially Roger Glover's bass playing is really groovy.
I'm quite sure I had a copy of this album in my vinyl collection, but it's nowhere to be found. It's a decent hard rock album, it's not heavy like Black Sabbath or Paranoid, but it has it's moments. I've not personally been a huge fan of rock star virtuoso's, so all those shiny solos, fast finger licks and vocal feats are sort of wasted on me. I am a huge fan of atmosphere and mood however, slow ascents into feels, distinct transitions between ambiences and tones, which is what I prefer in music and this album has it on occasion.
#649. I mean, this isn't something I'd listen to all the time, but it does fuck. 3/5: he'll yeah
dad music
I’m surprised by how much I liked this. I wasn’t really into the vocals but the guitar and drums were really good. This might be my favorite of the classic rock we’ve had so far. 3.5 rounded down.
3.5! Good jams, but no Zeppelin or Sabbath
very deep
Enjoyed this, but again had a lot there that I could take or leave. Highlights: Child in Time, Into the Fire
This album is 43 minutes of high energy from start to finish Fav songs: Into the Fire
Bland
This is an absolute Living Wreck that needs to be tossed Into the Fire. Immediately. At least they're consistent in their suckitude... except this time they didn't even have the benefit of that 'Smoke on the Water' riff.
This was worse than first Deep Purple album. And they certainly set the bar very low to begin.
I can appreciate its importance and I actually quite enjoyed the beginning but it got very tedious very fast for me. Much prefer a Black Sabbath over this.
Didn't like this one. Very repetitive.
3.5 - Good
Love this album, it’s definitely one you have to be in the mood for.
Very solid classic rock, but nothing to write home about. Heavy on the organ, but that's kinda Deep Purple's signature anyway. Child In Time is the obvious standout, but don't sleep on Speed King or Hard Lovin' Man. It's the wonder of nature, baby!
Didn't realize it was 10 years earlier than what it sounded like. My bad
This was good. I like a bit of 70s hard rock and this was a great example of the genre. I don’t know how much I would listen to this again but it was a solid 45 mins.
Having heard quite a bit of their later work, I'm surprised I didn't like this album as much. Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord remain virtuosos on their instruments, but I don't think the song composition was quite there yet.
The first half of the album is fantastic, and I thoroughly enjoyed Deep Purple's sound, which I was not expecting from a 1970 album. The second half was still good, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much.
70’s metal is not my thing. There’s a reason Spinal Tap exists and this is it. A very unenjoyable experience.
Boringgggggg. Okay. Child in Time is pretty cool. Hard lovin man is fine too. I don’t hear the “heaviness” people praise this album for having. It’s definitely hard rock but I guess im just not too knowledgeable abt this genre. Meh. 2/5⭐️
Umm woah. Wtf. This is amazing! The guitar work 😭 could bring a tear to the most stoic of eyes (mine).
Slaps
Deep Purple in Rock is fun. They're all over the place in every song, but in a very consistent way throughout the album. There's so much SoCal vibe on this which is quite a feat for a band out of London.
3,4/5
Probably incredible impressive for the time. Unfortunately now, it just treads the same ground as a lot of other hard rock albums. I feel as if I’ve heard all of this before.
Alright, not life changing
This fucking rocks. I can just picture myself in a dank club in the early 70s, face melting off. My favorite aspect of this album is the organ. Shit rips. I’m a total noob, I only ever knew “Smoke on the Water,” turns out that’s not fair to these dudes’ ability to shred. I mean damn. ML 172.
Old school rock n' roll, but that doesn't mean I like it.
Never heard of these guys, though the 120 million YouTube Music plays on “Child in Time” made my eyes bulge out of my skull in a cartoonish fashion. Guess this is another instance where I’m the uncultured swine. Understandably uncultured, however. I’ve never been one for metal. This album is about what I was expecting, though I can admit it succeeds at being competently predictable. If I were a fan of hard rock or metal, I could see myself getting along well with this album. However, from a milder perspective there was little going on in these songs which hooked me and many of them were way longer than they ever needed to be. Can’t say I enjoy the blown-out sound, either – especially with the organs on Hard Lovin’ Man. In any case, Speed King is a pretty alright opener. The breakneck speed of the song works quite nicely, and I enjoy the groovy guitars in the second half of the song. It’s interesting that the English appear to have pioneered metal. I was always of the impression that it was started by the Americans, though I guess it makes sense the more I think about it. Christianity is much more of a Seppo thing than a Pommy thing, which metal is kind of a direct antithesis to. That being said, I’ve encountered way more American metalheads online than British ones. Strange. In any case, I get the impression that this album is a solid inclusion for the book. I’ll check just to make sure. “A hard rock milestone.” A whole lot of nothing specific beyond that quote. Wikipedia has more to say in favour of this album, being an early innovator of hard rock and heavy metal. There’s a lot of praise for this album without it entering “greatest of all time” territory. Regardless, as an early predecessor to some popular and acclaimed genres, I think there’s merit to this one. I shall graciously spare it from the album shredder, even if I liked very little of it.
This album sounds like Guitar Center on Saturday afternoon. Everyone in there has the spirit and two good ideas but it doesn't gel. Machine Head is the only Deep Purple you need and that is a stretch of the term "need"
I listened to the wrong Deep Purple album (Machine Head)—out of order, as it turns out. I vastly prefer this one. It’s more raw and dangerous-sounding, where Machine Head is basic to the point of being dull. There’s more sonic variety and exploration here, and the songs are more consistently good. The screams and theatricality of “Child in Time” evokes Arthur Brown (“Fire”), while I also hear echoes of Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer. Ritchie Blackmore’s guitar playing and tone are fire. I would definitely play this album when the mood strikes.
These songs all sound like demos or jams based on "Highway star". Not what I expected. Machine Head AND another DP record I've not heard are ALSO on the list, so I can say pretty confidently this one doesn't need to be.